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GANshare: Creating and Curating Art with AI for Fun and Profit
Using the CLIP and VQGAN models to generate ChromaScapes, high-quality digital paintings for sale as NFTs on OpenSea
I first wrote about using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to create visual art in August of 2020. For that project, MachineRay, I trained NVidia’s StyleGAN2 [1] with abstract paintings in the public domain to create new works. Since then, I have written a few more articles on using GANs to produce fine art. From the feedback I received, I could tell that some readers wanted to learn how to generate digital art for sale as Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) in a burgeoning new market.
If you are not familiar with cryptocurrency and NFTs, here’s a quick analogy.
Cryptocurrency is to precious metal as NFTs are to precious gems.
Every ounce of pure gold is valued the same but every diamond is unique and thus valued differently.
For this project, I took the plunge into the world of NFTs. Not only am I creating and selling newly created digital art as NFTs, but I am also selling “shares” of a trained GAN to allow other artists to produce their own digital art for sale as NFTs. I call this concept a “GANshare,”…